During his visit to the Open University of China in Beijing today, Riga Mayor Nils Usakovs (Harmony Center) offered opening a regional Chinese language distance learning center in Riga, which could serve the entire Baltic region, LETA was informed by Usakovs' press secretary Anna Kononova.

Open University of China in Beijing.

It was agreed that the Riga City
Council and the Open University of China will work jointly to implement this
project.

Riga, the Freeport of Riga and
private companies are interested in developing economic cooperation with China.
However, the number of Chinese language specialists is insufficient. Therefore
the cooperation with the Open University of China will be highly useful.
Moreover, taking into account Riga's advantageous geographical location, the
language center could work in the entire Baltic and Scandinavian regions,
emphasized Usakovs.

3.3 million students are currently
studying at the Open University of China. 500,000 graduate each year. The
university specializes in distance learning.

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